Package : libtasn1-2 Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0645 Bugtraq ID : 16568
Evgeny Legerov discovered several out-of-bounds memory accesses in the DER decoding component component of the Tiny ASN.1 Library that allows attackers to crash the DER decoder and possibly execute arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by these problems.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2_0.2.10-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnutls packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------